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Hacked accounts to Syriatel company on Facebook and Twitter

Sep

2

2013

The parties to the conflict in Syria uses the Internet for electronic mutual attacks

Experienced official accounts of mobile communication “Syriatel on both social networks Facebook andTwitter to hack by unknown gunmen loyal to the Syrian revolution against the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad.

The hacker has changed the main image to both pages and placed instead of the image represents the flag of independence, they also published statements against the system, with a focus on disseminating video clips and photos that highlight the recent victims of chemical weapons massacre that killed according to more than 1,400 people, mostly children.

In the first reaction from the company, had put a message on the home page of the official website acknowledged the penetration and asked the participants not to send any information on any of the pages or to ensure the protection of their statements “until further notice”.

Owns Syriatel page on Facebook more than 153 thousand impressed while owning the company account on Twitter, which doesn’t seem to be active about 2950 follow-up.

Company Syriatel, one of two the players for mobile phone service in Syria, the company owned by businessman Rami makhlouf’s son free. The company has about 55% of the market share that shared with MTN.

The parties in Syria are using the Internet as an essential part of the conflict since the beginning of the revolution in the year 2011, with each party resort to hacking and piracy pages and sites of the other party as a kind of extension of the conflict to the Web.